Here Are the 58 Short Films Playing the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival has revealed its lineup of 58 short films set to play the fest, 29 of which are world premieres. The selections were curated from 3,074 submissions, and include shorts from 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland and the UK.

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival has revealed its lineup of 58
short films set to play the fest, 29 of which are world premieres. The
selections were curated from 3,074 submissions, and include shorts from 16
countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland and
the UK.

Tribeca will also screen the recent Oscar-winning Live
Action Short, “Helium.” Recipients of the festival’s Best Narrative Short and
Best Documentary Short Awards will qualify for consideration in the 2015 Oscar
Short Films category, provided the film complies with the Academy rules.

Here are the short film selections in the nine programs:

AFTER WORDS – documentary program

These short documentaries are at times political,
occasionally provocative, and always personal, reflecting the past and
illuminating the present.

Duke and the Buffalo, directed and written by Alfredo
Alcantara and Josh Chertoff. (USA) – World Premiere.

Showfolk, directed and written by Ned McNeilage. (USA) –
World Premiere.

CITY LIMITS – documentary program

This year our New York Shorts program “gets real” with four
world premiere documentaries relatable to anyone who calls this city home.

My Depression: The Up and Down and Up Of It,
directed and written by David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti, and Elizabeth
Swados. (USA) – World Premiere. An HBO Documentary film.

70 Hester Street, directed and written by Casimir Nozkowski.
(USA) – World Premiere.

One Year Lease, directed by Brian Bolster. (USA) – World
Premiere.

Of Many, directed by Linda G. Mills. (USA) – World Premiere.

DIGITAL DILEMMA – experimental program

As the commercial movie industry is rapidly shifting on a
global basis to digital distribution and exhibition, moving image artists
continue to celebrate the material qualities of the film medium, whose physical
characteristics consist of reels of celluloid film, sprocket holes, optical
sound tracks, mechanical splices, and the film emulsion, onto which they record
images and sounds.

A Film Is A Film Is A Film, directed and written by Eva von
Schweinitz. (USA) – World Premiere.

Acetate Diary, directed and written by Russell Sheaffer.
(USA) – World Premiere.

Romance Sans Paroles, directed and written by Christophe
Guérin. (France) – International Premiere.

CUT, directed and written by Anita Thacher. (USA) – World
Premiere.

Optical Sound, directed and written by Elke Groen and
Christian Neubacher. (Austria) – North
American Premiere.

Two Points of Failure, directed and written by Michael Moshe
Dahan. (USA) – New York Premiere.

All Vows, directed and written by Bill Morrison, co-written
by Michael Gordon. (USA) – New York Premiere.

Noise Reduction II: Chinatown, directed and written by Rahee
Punyashioka. (India) – North American Premiere.